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Category: Astronomy
Astronomy
Fast-moving Gas Flowing Away From Young Star Caused By Icy Comet Vaporisation
A unique stage of planetary system evolution has been imaged by astronomers, showing fast-moving carbon monoxide…
New Hubble Data Explains Missing Dark Matter
In 2018 an international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other…
Astronomical Instrument Hunts For Ancient Metal
Researchers created a new astronomical instrument that has successfully aided in estimating the abundance of metals…
A Galaxy Encounter Violently Disturbed The Milky Way
The spiral-shaped disc of stars and planets is being pulled, twisted and deformed with extreme violence…
Milky Way Family Tree
Galaxies like the Milky Way formed by the merging of smaller progenitor galaxies. …
Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness From Colossal Explosion
Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy…
Hubble Observes UGC 12588
Observed with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the faint galaxy featured in this image is known…
Black Hole’s Dust Ring May Be Casting Shadows From Heart of a Galaxy
Although astronomers have been studying galaxy IC 5063 for decades, it took a non-scientist to make…
VLA Sky Survey Reveals Newborn Jets In Distant Galaxies
Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have found a number of distant…